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During my cadet years, West Point was still a military cloister, linked tenuously to the outside world by the West Shore Railway, the excursion boats on the Hudson, and a winding road leading westward into New Jersey. A cadet normally entered the Academy in July and never left it on vacation until his second Christmas. In the meantime, he led a completely regimented life, arising at six, going to bed at ten and rarely having a moment without a duty to occupy it.

— Maxwell D. Taylor Swords and Plowshares (1972)

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It was one thing to decide to go to West Point, another to get there.

Swords and Plowshares (1972)

As we learned on the American frontier, it is impossible to plant corn outside the stockade until the Indians are driven away.

Responsibility and Response (1967)

A recruit arriving in a new unit feels lonely, homesick, and insecure. Someone has to welcome him when he arrives and make him understand that he is truly wanted. That responsibility is shared by every officer in the channel of command, beginning with the division commander.

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For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

The Uncertain Trumpet (1960)

Give me three days and three nights of hard fighting, and you will be relieved.

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